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Francis Bacon

A key figure in the Renaissance, Sir Francis Bacon was a noted philosopher, author and statesman whose promotion of active science greatly affected the English-speaking world. Bacon was a productive writer, even though his aspirations were political. His many essays, 58 in fact, were aphorisms on political behavior. He published his "The Advancement of Learning" in 1605 in the hopes of get…